What is recorded here

Indicated stretches two kilometres across the Clare plateau, a tangled ribbon of irregular fields linking eleven cashels and ancient burial mires. The stones reappear only when scrub thins, suggesting the boundary between ownership and wilderness never truly disappeared. People may have walked these lines for centuries, reading the landscape as a living ledger rather than empty rock.

An extensive field system (c. 2.1km N-S; c. 1.8km E-W) on an upland plateau visible intermittently on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi Aerial Premium (2012-2018) in an area of exposed karst and some scrub cover. The fields are very irregular and some are associated with cashels (of which there are 11 in the area) and a number of enclosures. Some parts of the field system may have prehistoric elements given the presence of burial cairns including Poulawack (CL009-032002-), a ring-cairn (CL009-065----) and a wedge tomb (CL009-067----). Extensive field systems with prehistoric and medieval elements extend over most of the Burren uplands. Those currently visible on aerial or satellite imagery are outlined for mapping purposes but it is likely that they continue under scrub and meet in certain areas. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 6 September 2021

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